The escalation of the health conditions concerning the recent emergency amplifies the problems already expressed by the evolution of the urban organism. The alternation between the appropriate need for confinement of the inhabitants in limited groups and the policies of social distancing aiming at stemming the spread of contagion of a virus that is as lethal as it is peculiar, proposes, in these current times, a general reflection on the composition of the forma urbis to refine settlement grammars that, in the face of the expansion and dispersion of the informal city of the twentieth century outlines, on the other hand, in the concentration and discontinuity of the built-up areas, in the identifiability of a finished figure of the settlements, in the control of the void as the primary space of agricultural production and sociability, the operational conditions to define the characters of a plausible urban dimension.

L’incalzare delle disposizioni sanitarie connesse alla recente emergenza amplifica le criticità già espresse dall’evolversi dell’organismo urbano. L’alternanza tra opportune necessità di confinamento degli abitanti in gruppi circoscritti e le politiche di distanziamento sociale disposte ad arginare la diffusione del contagio da un virus tanto letale quanto straordinario propone, nel tempo corrente, una generale riflessione sulla composizione della forma urbis per l’affinamento di grammatiche insediative che, a fronte dell’estensione e della dispersione della città informale del Novecento delinea, di contro, nella concentrazione e nella discontinuità del costruito, nella riconoscibilità di una figura conclusa degli insediamenti, nel controllo del vuoto come spazio primario della produzione agricola e della socialità, i presupposti operativi per definire i caratteri di una plausibile dimensione urbana.

Russo Antonello (2020). DENSIFY/SCALE DOWN. THE ARCHIPELAGO AS A RESPONSE. FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE, 52/53, 98-102 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1283/fam/issn2039-0491/n52-53-2020/494].

DENSIFY/SCALE DOWN. THE ARCHIPELAGO AS A RESPONSE

Russo Antonello
2020-01-01

Abstract

The escalation of the health conditions concerning the recent emergency amplifies the problems already expressed by the evolution of the urban organism. The alternation between the appropriate need for confinement of the inhabitants in limited groups and the policies of social distancing aiming at stemming the spread of contagion of a virus that is as lethal as it is peculiar, proposes, in these current times, a general reflection on the composition of the forma urbis to refine settlement grammars that, in the face of the expansion and dispersion of the informal city of the twentieth century outlines, on the other hand, in the concentration and discontinuity of the built-up areas, in the identifiability of a finished figure of the settlements, in the control of the void as the primary space of agricultural production and sociability, the operational conditions to define the characters of a plausible urban dimension.
2020
Russo Antonello (2020). DENSIFY/SCALE DOWN. THE ARCHIPELAGO AS A RESPONSE. FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE, 52/53, 98-102 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1283/fam/issn2039-0491/n52-53-2020/494].
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